Patrick Collison
Patrick Collison is an Irish entrepreneur who co-founded Stripe, a technology company revolutionizing online payment processing, where he serves as CEO.
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Medieval Technology and Social Change
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Lynn White
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Ocean Flying
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Louise Sacchi
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Orality and Literacy
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Walter J. Ong
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The Man Behind the Microchip
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Leslie Berlin
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The Scramble for Africa
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Thomas Pakenham
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The Cowshed
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Ji Xianlin
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Feynman Lectures on Computation
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Richard P. Feynman
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On the Shortness of Life
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Lucius Seneca
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The C Programming Language
In the aggregate [with other programming books] hugely shaped me. - Patrick Collison
Brian W. Kernighan
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Dealers of Lightning
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Michael A. Hiltzik
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The Long Way
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Bernard Moitessier
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Nixon Agonistes
Patrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great."
Garry Wills
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Mindstorms
Patrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great."
Seymour A. Papert
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The Power Law
By far the best book I've read on the sector. - Patrick Collison
Sebastian Mallaby
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Freedom's Forge
About the logistical efforts -- led mostly by high school dropouts and immigrants -- that yielded the Arsenal of Democracy. - Patrick Collison
Arthur Herman
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On Lisp
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Paul Graham
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Expert Political Judgment
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Philip E. Tetlock
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The City in History
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Lewis Mumford
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Anthropic Bias
Patrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great."
Nick Bostrom
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Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern Medicine
Very good (And Eugene Kleiner's first cousin!). - Patrick Collison
Thomas H. Lee
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River Town
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Peter Hessler
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A Decade of Research
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Giuliana ed. Lavendel
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Democracy in America
Patrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great."
Alexis de Tocqueville
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Nixonland
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Rick Perlstein
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Sum
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
David Eagleman
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Wind, Sand and Stars
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Business Adventures
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
John Brooks
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Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Gerald Jay Sussman
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Computer Lib
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Theodore H. Nelson
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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Michela Wrong
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Poor Charlie's Almanack
Patrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great."
Charlie Munger
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Quantum Computing since Democritus
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Scott Aaronson
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China Airborne
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
James Fallows
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A Culture of Growth
All of [this author’s] work is great, but [this book] in particular really stands out to me. - Patrick Collison
Joel Mokyr
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A Course in Mathematical Analysis
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Douard Goursat
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Age of Ambition
Patrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great."
Evan Osnos
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A Shot to Save the World
[This book], about the creation of the COVID vaccines, is terrific. - Patrick Collison
Gregory Zuckerman
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Patrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great."
Robert J. Gordon
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Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Harold Gilliam
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On Intelligence
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Jeff Hawkins
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Season of the Witch
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
David Talbot
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Whole Earth Discipline
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Stewart Brand
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Spacetime and Geometry
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Sean Carroll
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The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
James Morier
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Plagues and Peoples
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
William McNeill
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The Paris Review Interviews, I
Patrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great."
The Paris Review
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Designing Brand Identity
It's excellent: exceptionally data-rich and comprehensive. - Patrick Collison
Alina Wheeler
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Myth of the Machine
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Lewis Mumford
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Science
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
John Gribbin
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Neil Postman
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The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Nicholas J. Higham
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Modern Operating Systems
In the aggregate [with other programming books] hugely shaped me. - Patrick Collison
Andrew S Tanenbaum
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The Old Way
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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Talent
They've seen how undergrad & grad programs, academic departments, YC, startups, Apple, and Pioneer do talent selection. - Patrick Collison
Tyler Cowen
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Out of Mao's Shadow
Patrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great."
Philip P. Pan
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Matterhorn
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Karl Marlantes
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Global Catastrophic Risks
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Nick Bostrom
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Moral Mazes
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Robert Jackall
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Incompleteness
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Rebecca Goldstein
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The Educated Mind
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Kieran Egan
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Plato at the Googleplex
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Rebecca Goldstein
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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
In the aggregate [with other programming books] hugely shaped me. - Patrick Collison
Peter Norvig
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How Asia Works
A really good book. - Patrick Collison
Joe Studwell
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The Precipice
A great contribution. - Patrick Collison
Toby Ord
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If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... Where is Everybody?
Patrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great."
Stephen Webb
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Financial Shenanigans
John Collison called this "a well-targeted gift from [Patrick Collison]."
Howard M. Schilit
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Technics and Civilization
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Lewis Mumford
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Stories of Your Life and Others
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Ted Chiang
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The Secret Commonwealth
Going to own up to being very excited that there's a new Philip Pullman book. - Patrick Collison
Philip Pullman
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The Planet Remade
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Oliver Morton
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The Ocean of Life
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Callum Roberts
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Foucault's Pendulum
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Umberto Eco
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Longitude
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Dava Sobel
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Toward a Theory of Instruction
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Jerome Bruner
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Hard Landing
Patrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great."
Thomas Petzinger Jr.
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Reasons and Persons
I don't totally agree, but I think it's a really interesting modern take on moral philosophy. - Patrick Collison
Derek Parfit
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Spastic Diplegia--Bilateral Cerebral Palsy
Congrats, Mom! - Patrick Collison
Lily Collison
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Metamagical Themas
Patrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great."
Douglas R. Hofstadter
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I Didn't Do It for You
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Michela Wrong
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The Billion-Dollar Molecule
Lots about entrepreneurship, science, pharmacology, risk, importance of work ethic, management practices, fundraising, and the impressive depth of US capital markets. - Patrick Collison
Barry Werth
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Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens
Patrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great."
K. C. Cole
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The Beginning of Infinity
A really beautiful modern philosophy book. - Patrick Collison
David Deutsch
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Asimov's New Guide to Science
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Isaac Asimov
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The Idea Factory
Sets the context for the hardware inventions that directly led to Silicon Valley. - Patrick Collison
Jon Gertner
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Wittgenstein's Vienna
Have also been enjoying [this book]. - Patrick Collison
Allan Janik
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Midnight's Children
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Salman Rushdie
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The Dream Machine
Particularly great. - Patrick Collison
M. Mitchell Waldrop
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Masters of Doom
One of my favorite books about building software. - Patrick Collison
David Kushner
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
Patrick Collison labeled this book "particularly great."
Jason Stearns
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Organizing Genius
Talks a bit about this phenomenon of a really productive small group. - Patrick Collison
Warren Bennis
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Alexandre Dumas
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Men, Machines, and Modern Times
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Elting E. Morison
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The Infidel and the Professor
Great book. - Patrick Collison
Dennis C. Rasmussen
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The Chip
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
T. R. Reid
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Postcards from Tomorrow Square
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
James Fallows
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Generations
It's excellent: exceptionally data-rich and comprehensive. - Patrick Collison
Jean M. Twenge
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The Journalist And The Murderer
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Janet Malcolm
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Pacific
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
Simon Winchester
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Justice as Fairness
Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."
John Rawls
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Electronic Payment Systems for E-Commerce
Our childhood home in Limerick was previously inhabited by one of the authors of this book. - Patrick Collison
Donal O'Mahony
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